SCIBS director Dr Meredith J.C. Warren receives Frank W. Beare Award

Dr Meredith J.C. Warren and her co-authors, Dr Sara Parks (St Francis Xavier 海角社区) and Dr Shayna Sheinfeld (Augsburg 海角社区) receive Frank W. Beare Award for their book, Jewish and Christian Women in the Ancient Mediterranean.

Dr. Sara Parks and Dr. Meredith Warren, pictured at the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies Annual Meeting for 2023
L-R, Dr. Sara Parks and Dr. Meredith Warren, pictured at the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies Annual Meeting for 2023, at York 海角社区 in Toronto, Canada. Third co-author, Dr. Shayna Sheinfeld, was unable to attend.

Congratulations to SCIBS director Dr Meredith J.C. Warren and her co-authors, Dr Sara Parks (St Francis Xavier 海角社区) and Dr Shayna Sheinfeld (Augsburg 海角社区) on the award of the Frank W. Beare Award for their book, Jewish and Christian Women in the Ancient Mediterranean (Routledge 2022). The award was announced at the annual meeting of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies at York 海角社区 in Toronto, Canada.

The Frank W. Beare Award 鈥渞ecognizes an outstanding book in the areas of Christian Origins, Post-Biblical Judaism and/or Graeco-Roman Religions鈥 The category of 鈥渙utstanding鈥 ought to be understood expansively and may be characterized by persuasiveness and originality, theoretical or methodological innovation, intellectual creativity, and/or the high quality of scholarship that reaches beyond the academic guild and is public-facing.鈥

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To hear the authors talk about their writing process and the book鈥檚 goals, visit  and to read about the Frank W Beare award and see past winners, please see .

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